Tool handle



Nov 27, 1928-. 1,693,269

. I. CLULEE TOOL HANDLE Filed March 31, 1927 Patented Nov. 27, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY I. CLULEE, OF WALLINGFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOB TO B. WALLACE & SONS MFG. 00., OF WALLINGFORD, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

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Application filed March 31, 1927.

This invention relates to improvement in tool handles, and particularly to handles formed from wood, and while particularly designed as a handle for ice-picks, is equally applicable to handles for chisels, gouges, screw-drivers, and other tools, where it is desirable to strike the handle with a hammer, which soon mutilates it. le object of this invention is to form a metal cap adapted to be applied to the outer end of a wooden handle,and the invention consists in the construction as hereinafter described and particularly recited in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is a side view of atool handle constructed in accordance with my invention;

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the upper end thereof;

Fig. 3 is a plan View of the blank from which the cap is formed; and

Fig. 4 is a side view, partly in section, of the same, after being drawn into cup shape.

In carrying out my invention, I form a cap 5 from a disk 6 of comparatively heavy sheet-metal, the disk being formed with a series of deep notches 7 in its edge, forming a series of fingers 8. The disk thus formed then drawn into cup shape, as shown in F 4 of the drawings. The cap thus partially formed is placed over a ball end 9 which larger in diameter than the diameter of the main portion of the wooden handle 10, and the fingers 8 are curved inward, below the central transverse plane of the ball-like end, so as to enclose the ball end 9, whereby the cap is firmly gripped thereon. The depth of the cup corresponds to the diameter of the ball end of the handle. The handle receives a shank 11 of a. tool. which may be of Serial No. 179,770.

any character,-represented in Fig. 1 as an ice-pick.

This construction provides a wooden handle with a metal cap which, in the case of an ice-pick, provides a heavy end which may be used in cracking ice, and, in the case of other tools, provides a surface which may be struck witha hammer without damaging the handle. This cap may be finished in any desired manner, such, for instance, as plating, and when applied to a handle, forms a contrasting surface therewith which is not only useful but ornamental.

I claim:

As a new article of manufacture, an armored wooden handle for ice picks and the like, consisting of a turned wooden handle comprising a ball-like end and a shank, the diameter of the said handle at the junction of its ball-like end and its shank being markedly less than the transverse diameter of its ball-like end, and a relatively thick and heavy one-piece metal cap comprising a domical body conforming to the curvature of the outer portion of the ball-like end of the said handle and having upon its edge a circular series of equally-spaced inwardlycurved gripping-fingers superimposed upon and embracing the surface of the inner portion of the said ball-like end of the handle to firmly anchor the metal thereupon, whereby and on account of the thickness and heaviness of the metal cap the armored ball-like end of the handle may be utilized as a hammer and whereby its fingers will serve to hold the cap in place solely by their rigidity and hence gripping power.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification.

HARRY I. CLU LEE. 

